"Finally, there is the profit motive, or lack thereof. With the IT industry having been in the doldrums for two years now, firms are desperate for something new--anything--to kick-start demand."
All the rest was just filler... with this innocent looking sublimal message right in the middle.
I wanted to rate this as insightful and funny but instead simply lament not having a 'disturbingly accurate' rating on/.
'nuff said.
p.s. i don't own a cell phone for just this reason.
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Where in the US did you live? The company you worked for was seriously screwing you... it's good that you got out of that job, though I think you could have found an equally as satisfying occupation here in the US. It's all about the company, not the country. Some companies will expect you to work on holidays... technically illegal or not, some will give you extra 'personal' holidays for things like religion or whatever.. and to be fair to all they don't ask why you're taking the day off.
I can concur though not from having walked in your shoes, quite the opposite... I don't have a degree I went straight into my career. I am 25 and don't make too good of money for my region (60k in socal) but I only have 6k in debt AND I have the stuff in my house that created the debt (furniture, nice laptop, electronics). I have no student loans.
I have enjoyed my job for the past 3 years (graphic designer - web designer/developer for software firm) and before that I enjoyed almost every job I've ever had. I may be ready to move on soon but for the moment the security is great. One thing I've done consistently is to insist on a flexible schedule.
I get the work done and the quality surpasses anything you will find without paying more than twice my compensation (I'm well underpayed for my services), however I take days off when I feel the need to fend off burn out and I enjoy long mornings sleeping in or meeting up with friends for good conversation frequently. I also am known for working all night long when I really need to or feel like it is the best way to get the job done. I take the next day off, after contacting my boss to confirm the work has been done.
The point of this diatribe is to present an alternative situation. It can be done. You can have a job you like at a decent wage doing work you enjoy with good people and a flexible schedule... but you have to be really good at what you do and take a little less pay than you could find at another company who expected you to be both great at your job and put in incredible hours of work. It's a tradeoff but one which I gladly make knowing that I am not at risk of a heart attack or of being replaced by someone willing to do the same for less money. Incentive stock sweetens the pot a little as well... maybe a decent payoff for the pay-cut..
PPC 970 using Hypertransport will always use the same multiplier, doesn't mean they aren't the same chip though.. could be - we'll have to see. However for example if the chips were running at 3.0 Ghz the bus would be 1.5 ghz, likewise if they ran at only 1.2 Ghz the bus would be at 600 mhz. That's just how it works, look it up if you need more details.
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There's another type...
#4 The type who don't want anything to interfere with their pre-existing real estate value.
Lots of these types in Southern California and up in Seattle.. I think these folks in Nantucket are more #4 types.
Well it's not exactly opensource or even software but for your one time purpose you might consider just categorizing your data into sections and putting it in to one or multiple 3-Ring binders with subdividers w/ little tabs on them for easy lookup.
After that you will have a great start on digitizing the whole thing if you still feel like it later (presumably after you've actually gone ahead and written your paper).
Seriously, why take all the time to digitize this stuff when you're only going to use it once in your life as reference. When and if you get to publish it later you can spend the time inputting or maybe even hire someone to do it for you.
"Simplifying, free software is ethical and socially just. When it is said in the government to take care of of the population with designs to supply food, habitation, school and health gratuitously, everybody understands, reason cannot understand with software and the digital inclusion? Free software is only a piece of the immense social revolution that has for coming.
Ricardo Andere de Mello President of the ONG Digital Quilombo www.quilombodigital.org"
If you had read the article you would have found out that this lawsuit was brought about 18 MONTHS ago. It has absolutely nothing to do with what is or isn't happening this month or even this year.
Not to mention that OpenGroup only wants $110,000 for full licensing, and to test OS X against their 'UNIX' specs for compliance....
I thought setting up and playing Massive Lan Games was the only legitimate activity for a Computer Club... am I wrong?
Also Chemistry Club is for blowing things up and making nitrogen cooled Bongs!
Maybe you could set up a blogging system for students? I also recommend that you re-design your website using one of any popular PHP/MySQL portal systems. May I suggest Geeklog.
The guy with the auction patent DID use it... for trading baseball cards in the early nineties (if I recall correctly).
Also... how many individual inventors have the cash available to do anything hi-tech? Say you have the education and insight to develop a revolutionary new process for processor design.. do you have the funds to build a prototype? Say a couple hundred thousand just for materials?
Theoretically it all works, simulation shows it works... so you patent it and then bring it to a big chip fab company and tell them you will license exclusively to them if they help you prototype it and test it.
Maybe no one wants to do it near term... should you lose your patent? No. 5 years later tech has changed, limits have been reached and your patent is starting to look a whole lot more interesting.
I was under the real impression that Palladium was something Intel was leading. Microsoft is supposed to be their premier partner in preparing an OS level implementation of it and of course is helping to coordinate integration with Windows first... am I incorrect?
Re:Buy a Book v.s Web Resources
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Interestingly enough, metrics for piracy have only been around as long as the internet/p2p! Did the RIAA have any chance of checking up on how many people were making tape recordings of their friends music.. and the sharing that commenced.. and later with CDs? I think not. They have been using the same technology they decry as criminal to keep track of those same 'criminal' activites. There is precedent of course... drug stings comes to mind.
In any case, how has the market changed? Just because they have metrics to describe the amount of revenue they are losing to song swappers (not file swappers, there's a difference) doesn't mean the numbers have really changed all that much. When is the last time you asked a 'real world' friend to borrow a CD to make a copy?
So if this is factual then they are not losing any more revenue from song swapping than they have historically since the advent of consumer recordable media... so much for the arguement that song swapping is killing the recording industry. It's only with the introduction of the internet and p2p and corresponding digital footprints that they've been able to track said 'piracy' and give it a value.
Clearly then it isn't the everyday file swapping which has increased RIAA losses, it is RIAA business practices which have done so. IE: Music industry is killing Music industry, not song swapping.
"The other 1 in 6 slashdotters didn't read the story yet."
I believe you are exaggerating my good sir! 1 in 6 indeed...
Re:From reading the Nature article
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Dragonflies maybe have near 360 degree vision, considering their large bulbous compound eyes, which might account for the rear-view capabilities?
In any case, the real question is how we as humans intend to take advantage of this knowledge when dealing with similarly equipped, ie steroscopic vision, opponents. It's not as if we can actually move that fast, at least not at close range. Maybe that's it, maybe it's something we could use for our stealth program.... nah nobody uses 'video' for aircraft detection. So what? Project a hologram into your opponents eyes with a laser that makes it seem like you are always in one place? Still I don't see how this is useful. Maybe I'm missing something, maybe it's not 'us' that will be hiding, maybe nano-dust-speck-spy-devices will use this to stay out of sight? hmmm... that at least seems plausible.
Well, here's to applications of esoteric knowledge! *raises glass of champaigne*
I've heard great things about negative-ionizing Salt Lamps.
Supposedly these things are great for offsetting the positive ionization especially created by CRT displays. The more expensive option would be to just get a good LCD... almost no ion/radiation being emitted. Yes, those CRTs emit lots of radiation... so get a salt lamp from Poland or sell your first child for a LCD display.
Dude didn't you read... you can still do what ever you want outside of iTunes. FTP, whatever... DRM has nothing at all to do with this, in fact it goes overboard if DRM is the consideration.... it also stops you streaming your own ripped mp3s, even music you created yourself, through iTunes, not otherwise.
Sounds like you really shouldn't be using a Mac if it feels like getting f'd up the ass... my experience has been more like getting a hand job... somtimes you get jerked around but for the most part it feels pretty good (Linux), leaves you satisfied (UNIX) and you don't end up with any STDs (Windows).
With that said, you'd have to be an absolute moron to pay $200 for a $50 part... do you always buy at the boutique? I get my car at the dealership but when the warranty runs out I go down the street to good ol' Clydes 'Good Enough' repair shop, bring the parts myself after buying them online from the same place he does but without the mark up.
sounds like a Library of music to me. Why not, Universities provide free access to millions of books and magazines and other types of media that they have licensed for the expressed purpose of loaning them out to paying students. What is so different about this idea?
Of course adequate DRM of some sort would need to be in place to prevent students from sending ripped copies outside the university network. On the other hand this is a much more enforceable situation from the Universities POV...
"We have provided you free access to a large body of music, now if you traffick in illicit trade of OUR licensed media, we feel absolutely comfortable expelling YOU! So don't F*CK with us."
I don't have any problems with student tuition subsidizing the recording industry, college age students are their target market and 90% of the crappy music they spit out is in fact designed and engineered just for college age students, most of whom have no idea what good music is yet. In fact it might be interesting to see what student body governments would do if they had a finite number of artists or albums they had to pick from. And yes I think the students should be able to choose which music they want to be paying for w/ their tuition.
So just to remind you; where would we be if our students had to purchase at full price all of the books, etc. they borrow from their school libraries? Can you imagine the pirating of literature? It already happens with textbooks but it would be much more rampant if students couldn't just go and borrow the books they need for their studies, not to mention for pure enjoyment.
As a moderator who's giving up his points.. I just bought Primus: Sailing the Seas of Cheese from iTMS AND it sounds as good as I remember it from CDs!
Best experience, best quality, best value for money spent, just the best.... no equal. 'nuff said.
Slashdot Mirror
WOW, Linux really is the next MAC!
"Finally, there is the profit motive, or lack thereof. With the IT industry having been in the doldrums for two years now, firms are desperate for something new--anything--to kick-start demand."
All the rest was just filler... with this innocent looking sublimal message right in the middle.
Any questions?
I wanted to rate this as insightful and funny but instead simply lament not having a 'disturbingly accurate' rating on /.
'nuff said.
p.s. i don't own a cell phone for just this reason.
Where in the US did you live? The company you worked for was seriously screwing you... it's good that you got out of that job, though I think you could have found an equally as satisfying occupation here in the US. It's all about the company, not the country. Some companies will expect you to work on holidays... technically illegal or not, some will give you extra 'personal' holidays for things like religion or whatever.. and to be fair to all they don't ask why you're taking the day off.
I can concur though not from having walked in your shoes, quite the opposite... I don't have a degree I went straight into my career. I am 25 and don't make too good of money for my region (60k in socal) but I only have 6k in debt AND I have the stuff in my house that created the debt (furniture, nice laptop, electronics). I have no student loans.
I have enjoyed my job for the past 3 years (graphic designer - web designer/developer for software firm) and before that I enjoyed almost every job I've ever had. I may be ready to move on soon but for the moment the security is great. One thing I've done consistently is to insist on a flexible schedule.
I get the work done and the quality surpasses anything you will find without paying more than twice my compensation (I'm well underpayed for my services), however I take days off when I feel the need to fend off burn out and I enjoy long mornings sleeping in or meeting up with friends for good conversation frequently. I also am known for working all night long when I really need to or feel like it is the best way to get the job done. I take the next day off, after contacting my boss to confirm the work has been done.
The point of this diatribe is to present an alternative situation. It can be done. You can have a job you like at a decent wage doing work you enjoy with good people and a flexible schedule... but you have to be really good at what you do and take a little less pay than you could find at another company who expected you to be both great at your job and put in incredible hours of work. It's a tradeoff but one which I gladly make knowing that I am not at risk of a heart attack or of being replaced by someone willing to do the same for less money. Incentive stock sweetens the pot a little as well... maybe a decent payoff for the pay-cut..
anyways, just chiming in.
PPC 970 using Hypertransport will always use the same multiplier, doesn't mean they aren't the same chip though.. could be - we'll have to see. However for example if the chips were running at 3.0 Ghz the bus would be 1.5 ghz, likewise if they ran at only 1.2 Ghz the bus would be at 600 mhz. That's just how it works, look it up if you need more details.
There's another type...
#4 The type who don't want anything to interfere with their pre-existing real estate value.
Lots of these types in Southern California and up in Seattle.. I think these folks in Nantucket are more #4 types.
Well it's not exactly opensource or even software but for your one time purpose you might consider just categorizing your data into sections and putting it in to one or multiple 3-Ring binders with subdividers w/ little tabs on them for easy lookup.
After that you will have a great start on digitizing the whole thing if you still feel like it later (presumably after you've actually gone ahead and written your paper).
Seriously, why take all the time to digitize this stuff when you're only going to use it once in your life as reference. When and if you get to publish it later you can spend the time inputting or maybe even hire someone to do it for you.
very rough translation of the best part:
"Simplifying, free software is ethical and socially just. When it is said in the government to take care of of the population with designs to supply food, habitation, school and health gratuitously, everybody understands, reason cannot understand with software and the digital inclusion? Free software is only a piece of the immense social revolution that has for coming.
Ricardo Andere de Mello
President of the ONG Digital Quilombo www.quilombodigital.org"
"I hardly would describe them as a dependable source of unfounded rumours."
What are you trying to say, they are a great source of unfounded rumours! Not to mention dependable!
If you had read the article you would have found out that this lawsuit was brought about 18 MONTHS ago. It has absolutely nothing to do with what is or isn't happening this month or even this year.
...
Not to mention that OpenGroup only wants $110,000 for full licensing, and to test OS X against their 'UNIX' specs for compliance.
I thought setting up and playing Massive Lan Games was the only legitimate activity for a Computer Club... am I wrong?
Also Chemistry Club is for blowing things up and making nitrogen cooled Bongs!
Maybe you could set up a blogging system for students? I also recommend that you re-design your website using one of any popular PHP/MySQL portal systems. May I suggest Geeklog.
The guy with the auction patent DID use it... for trading baseball cards in the early nineties (if I recall correctly).
Also... how many individual inventors have the cash available to do anything hi-tech? Say you have the education and insight to develop a revolutionary new process for processor design.. do you have the funds to build a prototype? Say a couple hundred thousand just for materials?
Theoretically it all works, simulation shows it works... so you patent it and then bring it to a big chip fab company and tell them you will license exclusively to them if they help you prototype it and test it.
Maybe no one wants to do it near term... should you lose your patent? No. 5 years later tech has changed, limits have been reached and your patent is starting to look a whole lot more interesting.
I was under the real impression that Palladium was something Intel was leading. Microsoft is supposed to be their premier partner in preparing an OS level implementation of it and of course is helping to coordinate integration with Windows first... am I incorrect?
Get a good virtual desktop app... problem solved.
Interestingly enough, metrics for piracy have only been around as long as the internet/p2p! Did the RIAA have any chance of checking up on how many people were making tape recordings of their friends music.. and the sharing that commenced.. and later with CDs? I think not. They have been using the same technology they decry as criminal to keep track of those same 'criminal' activites. There is precedent of course... drug stings comes to mind.
In any case, how has the market changed? Just because they have metrics to describe the amount of revenue they are losing to song swappers (not file swappers, there's a difference) doesn't mean the numbers have really changed all that much. When is the last time you asked a 'real world' friend to borrow a CD to make a copy?
So if this is factual then they are not losing any more revenue from song swapping than they have historically since the advent of consumer recordable media... so much for the arguement that song swapping is killing the recording industry. It's only with the introduction of the internet and p2p and corresponding digital footprints that they've been able to track said 'piracy' and give it a value.
Clearly then it isn't the everyday file swapping which has increased RIAA losses, it is RIAA business practices which have done so. IE: Music industry is killing Music industry, not song swapping.
"The other 1 in 6 slashdotters didn't read the story yet."
I believe you are exaggerating my good sir! 1 in 6 indeed...
Dragonflies maybe have near 360 degree vision, considering their large bulbous compound eyes, which might account for the rear-view capabilities?
In any case, the real question is how we as humans intend to take advantage of this knowledge when dealing with similarly equipped, ie steroscopic vision, opponents. It's not as if we can actually move that fast, at least not at close range. Maybe that's it, maybe it's something we could use for our stealth program.... nah nobody uses 'video' for aircraft detection. So what? Project a hologram into your opponents eyes with a laser that makes it seem like you are always in one place? Still I don't see how this is useful. Maybe I'm missing something, maybe it's not 'us' that will be hiding, maybe nano-dust-speck-spy-devices will use this to stay out of sight? hmmm... that at least seems plausible.
Well, here's to applications of esoteric knowledge! *raises glass of champaigne*
I've heard great things about negative-ionizing Salt Lamps.
Supposedly these things are great for offsetting the positive ionization especially created by CRT displays. The more expensive option would be to just get a good LCD... almost no ion/radiation being emitted. Yes, those CRTs emit lots of radiation... so get a salt lamp from Poland or sell your first child for a LCD display.
http://www.humansoftware.com/pages1200/PhotoFixle
Photoshop plugin for exactly this issue. Dont' know how well it works but it may be just waht you're looking for... Mac and Windows.
Dude didn't you read... you can still do what ever you want outside of iTunes. FTP, whatever... DRM has nothing at all to do with this, in fact it goes overboard if DRM is the consideration.... it also stops you streaming your own ripped mp3s, even music you created yourself, through iTunes, not otherwise.
Sounds like you really shouldn't be using a Mac if it feels like getting f'd up the ass... my experience has been more like getting a hand job... somtimes you get jerked around but for the most part it feels pretty good (Linux), leaves you satisfied (UNIX) and you don't end up with any STDs (Windows).
With that said, you'd have to be an absolute moron to pay $200 for a $50 part... do you always buy at the boutique? I get my car at the dealership but when the warranty runs out I go down the street to good ol' Clydes 'Good Enough' repair shop, bring the parts myself after buying them online from the same place he does but without the mark up.
sounds like a Library of music to me. Why not, Universities provide free access to millions of books and magazines and other types of media that they have licensed for the expressed purpose of loaning them out to paying students. What is so different about this idea?
Of course adequate DRM of some sort would need to be in place to prevent students from sending ripped copies outside the university network. On the other hand this is a much more enforceable situation from the Universities POV...
"We have provided you free access to a large body of music, now if you traffick in illicit trade of OUR licensed media, we feel absolutely comfortable expelling YOU! So don't F*CK with us."
I don't have any problems with student tuition subsidizing the recording industry, college age students are their target market and 90% of the crappy music they spit out is in fact designed and engineered just for college age students, most of whom have no idea what good music is yet. In fact it might be interesting to see what student body governments would do if they had a finite number of artists or albums they had to pick from. And yes I think the students should be able to choose which music they want to be paying for w/ their tuition.
So just to remind you; where would we be if our students had to purchase at full price all of the books, etc. they borrow from their school libraries? Can you imagine the pirating of literature? It already happens with textbooks but it would be much more rampant if students couldn't just go and borrow the books they need for their studies, not to mention for pure enjoyment.
As a moderator who's giving up his points.. I just bought Primus: Sailing the Seas of Cheese from iTMS AND it sounds as good as I remember it from CDs!
Best experience, best quality, best value for money spent, just the best.... no equal. 'nuff said.
OR get an iMac ;-p or a nice Apple Laptop... doesn't heat a thing, well maybe the keyboard a little...